Guy Pearce
Sixteen-year-old Guy was extremely buffed; he won the state junior bodybuilding competition at that age. He was quite fixated on bodybuilding as well as on other things like music and acting. What was really fascinating to me about bodybuilding was it was also really creative. The idea that you could shape your body, like you were doing sculpture. And, of course, my ego was involved but I probably didn’t realise it at the time. I was doing it secretly, nobody at school knew about it, then I’d run out on the football field with a sleeveless top on and people would be like “Oh my god, where did you get those arms?!”
I could socialise but it took a lot of energy from me, and any sport or any activity that I could do on my own was
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